Word: break
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"This is the big break the markets have been waiting for after a week of bad news," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The pace of new job creation for August is less than what economists had forecast, and the pressure on wages has been slight." That spells low inflation, notes Baumohl, and it means that worries about another Fed rate hike this year have been, if not entirely put to rest, at least sent upstairs for a nice long nap. Burgers? Hey, why not break out the steaks...
...rehabilitation facility. They did their best but were short staffed. His doctors wanted to put him on the harshest psychotropic drugs available. When several nurses warned me against the drugs, I fought for and got a milder drug regimen. But again, fearful that he'd get up and break a hip, they strapped him to his bed. He began to wither away, uninterested for the first time in food, because he was no longer allowed salt. He couldn't see to ring the bell for the toilet, so he would sometimes lie for hours in wet diapers or sheets until...
...bill's average annual break for the best-off tenth of all taxpayers...
...bill's average annual break for those earning less than...
Cross Ulysses with Herman's Head, and you might get this inventive "stream of consciousness," six-episode comedy. A thirtyish commitment-phobe takes a job teaching English in Japan and has three days to break up with his girlfriend, quit his job and sell everything he owns. But his friends, his family--even his stuff--are not ready to let him go before he harrowingly confronts every neurosis and shortcoming of his soon-to-be-former life, through the sometimes labored but often quite funny fantasy sequences in this mini-epic of indecision...